OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	19
Community treatment orders: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives	12
PTSD malingering detection in damage claim cases: Diagnostic accuracy in cases of personal injury as a result of motor vehicle accidents	11
Use of the least intrusive coercion at Danish psychiatric wards: A register-based cohort study of 131,632 first and subsequent coercive episodes within 35,812 admissions	11
‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983	10
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”	10
Editorial Board	9
Conflicting purposes: Guardianship law, mental health law and involuntary detentions	9
The p factor, crime, and criminal justice: A criminological study of Caspi et al.'s general psychopathology general theory	9
Examining the health and criminal justice characteristics for young people on compulsory community treatment orders: An Australian birth cohort and data linkage study	9
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future	8
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them	8
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 2020	8
Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders	7
The debate about physician assisted suicide and euthanasia in Ireland – Implications for psychiatry	7
A repertoire and critical review of international resources relevant to medical assistance in dying where a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition	7
Privacy and safety: Issues of dual compliance in high-secure and other forensic psychiatric hospitals	7
Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between job demands and both burnout and work engagement in judges: The boosting effects of conscientiousness and introversion	7
RIGHTCARE-PR: Reporting guidelines for human rights in child and adolescent psychiatry	7
Large language models and psychiatry	6
The role of ‘micro-decisions’ in involuntary admissions decision-making for inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals in South Africa	6
Is this an underestimated problem? Using coercion before psychiatric hospitalization	6
The psychometric properties of the Forensic Stigma Scale (FSS)	6
Evaluation of the sensitivity of the Health Screening of People in Police Custody (HELP-PC) tool in Northumbria Police, UK	6
Diagnosing psychopathy in an intercultural setting: Applications and implications in postcolonial contemporary Mayotte	6

A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance	6
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and suggestibility: A survey of United States federal case law	6
Capacity and incapacity: An appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?	6
Forensic aspects of dissociative positive symptoms in trauma-related disorders and borderline personality disorder	5
Policing psychiatric illness: An organisational paradox for Health & Law	5
Editorial Board	5
Predictors of recovery in a medium secure service: Influence of the Welsh Government's Mental Health (2010) Measure	5
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and decision-making: Legal & ethical hurdles for implementation in mental health	5
Assessing the validity of self-report of psychopathy short-form (SRP-SF) in incarcerated offenders from Chile and Uruguay	5
Abolition of coercion in mental health services – A European survey of feasibility	5
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’	4
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach	4
The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody	4
Control in the community: A qualitative analysis of the experience of persons on conditional discharge in Hong Kong	4
Effects of psychological torture and cybertorture with emerging digital technologies under anti-torture legal obligations in China: A mixed methods research in risks and remedies	4
Remodelling criminal insanity: Exploring philosophical, legal, and medical premises of the medical model used in Norwegian law	4
Homicides by offenders with psychotic illness in Italy and Turkiye: A comparison of offender and crime-scene profiles	4
Forensic psychiatry patients, services, and legislation in Nunavut and Greenland	4
Sociodemographic, psychiatric and criminal characteristics of elderly offenders under evaluation for criminal responsibility in Turkey	4
Antisocial personality disorder and determinants among prisoners in South Gondar zone correctional institutions, Northwest Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study	4
Means of restraint in residential care when there is no acute danger. Time for the European committee on the prevention of torture to set the standard	4
Does adolescent drug use belong on the antisocial spectrum? Mediating the drug–crime connection with cognitive impulsivity	4
Perception of the criminality of attempted suicide in Nepal and its impact on suicide reporting	4
Role of psychopathology on children credibility of sexual abuse testimony	4
The contribution of psychopathic traits and substance use in the prediction of recidivism of sexual offenders	4
Editorial Board	4
Police use of force standards and mental health crises in the United States: Identifying research and policymaking targets	4
Compulsory treatment in Portuguese-speaking countries: An analysis and comparison of the legal framework	4
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye	4
England and Wales draft Mental Health Bill: Implications for people with intellectual disabilities	4
Restricted patients in New Zealand: A failed social experiment with a hybrid form of civil/forensic compulsory mental health treatment	4
Homicide perpetrators with psychotic illness found not criminally responsible in Turkiye and Russia: An international comparison	3
The use of community treatment orders in people with substance induced psychosis	3
Mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards seclusion: The ambivalent relationship between safety and therapeutic considerations	3
Editorial Board	3
Mind over matter: Mental illness and sentencing outcomes among homicide cases in Singapore	3
Exploring structural stigma towards mental disorders: An analysis of trial verdicts	3
Modeling the effects of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police officers: How knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy drive de-escalation skills and referral decisions	3
Editorial Board	3
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care	3
An International Comparison of Psychiatric Advance Directive Policy: Across eleven jurisdictions and alongside advance directive policy	3
Perspectives on the eligibility criteria for euthanasia for mental suffering caused by psychiatric disorder under the Belgian Euthanasia Law: A qualitative interview study among mental healthcare work	3
Cognitive biases in forensic psychiatry: A scoping review	3
Editorial Board	3
Mental health, medical incapacity, and political leadership in the United Kingdom: A multidisciplinary analysis of the intersections between psychiatry and constitutional law	3
Artificial intelligence in insanity evaluation. Potential opportunities and current challenges	3
Editorial Board	3
Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect: A relational lens	3
A mixed-methods analysis of the influence of bio-behavioral scientific evidence on U.S. judges' reasoning and sentencing decision-making	3
Bias analysis in forensic and non-forensic psychiatric assessments	3

Mental health disorders, adverse childhood experiences and accelerated reoffending among justice-involved youth in Australia: A longitudinal recurrent event analysis	3
The use of coercive measures in a high security setting in Belgium: Prevalence and risk factors	3
Editorial Board	2
Coercive measures in disability and mental health care services: Mechanical restraints from a bioethical and legal perspective in Spain	2
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization: A close look at the mafia men	2
Stakeholder experiences with compulsory treatment at home: A focus-group study	2
Criminal responsibility evaluations: Benchmarking in different countries	2
Restricted patients and detention in the community: The human rights implications of supervised discharge under the Mental Health Bill 2025	2
Using the interRAI brief mental health screener to identify persons with mental disorders having repeat contact with police	2
Hospital break. An eight-year review of escapes and absconds from two high security forensic centers	2
Decision-making by and for adults with impaired capacity: The potential of the Dutch levenstestament	2
Individual liberty, safety and police liabilities under the mental health (care and treatment) act	2
Legal consciousness of psychiatric patients in Israeli hospitals: Awareness and satisfaction	2
Risk factors for involuntary admission in a Romanian patient sample	2
Personality disorder, mental capacity and compulsory intervention	2
No man's land: Troubling the borders of mental health and capacity law	2
Unlocking the impact of the CRPD on Swedish mental health law	2
Editorial Board	2
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: An overview	2
“It just felt like a rubber stamp”: Family experiences of mental health review board hearings in Ontario, Canada	2
Editorial Board	2
Adult safeguarding legislation: Navigating the borderlands between mental capacity, mental health and social care law and practice	2
The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people	2
A shifting paradigm? A scoping review of the factors influencing recovery and rehabilitation in recent forensic research	1
Global prevalence of borderline personality disorder and self-reported symptoms of adults in prison: A systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Corrigendum to “The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people” [International Journ	1
Elusive cases in forensic psychiatry? Exploring subgroups of schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients in Germany	1
Reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment under mental health act 2016, Queensland, Australia – Clinician perspectives	1
RECAPACITA project: Comparing neuropsychological profiles in people with severe mental disorders, with and without capacity modification	1
The Mental Health Bill 2024 in the Republic of Ireland: Potential implications for adults with intellectual disabilities	1
The influence of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities on the European court of human rights in the area of mental health law: Divergence and unexplored potential	1
Editorial Board	1
The rights to legal capacity, personal freedom, and safety during psychiatric hospitalizations at a general hospital	1
Overview of forensic outpatients on the Medical Treatment and Supervision Act in Japan	1
Criminal legal system contact in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD): Experiences and support needs	1
Experts' decision-making processes in Swedish forensic psychiatric investigations: A case vignette study	1
Stigma management during reintegration of older incarcerated adults with mental health issues: A qualitative analysis	1
Editorial Board	1
Quality of life after involuntary psychiatric admission	1
The Dutch Compulsory Care Act: Possible effects on emergency involuntary admissions, treatment, and length of stay	1
A systematic mapping review identifying key features of restraint research in inpatient pediatric psychiatry: A human rights perspective	1
Editorial Board	1
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Law in the State of Qatar	1
Perceived fairness as main determinant of patients' satisfaction with care during psychiatric hospitalisation: An observational study	1
Editorial Board	1
What place has ‘capacity’ in the criminal law relating to sex post JB?	1
Editorial Board	1
“Everyone means well but the one person who's really going to go to bat” - experiences and perspectives of substitute decision makers in caring for their loved ones with serious mental illness	1
Correlates and predictors of re-incarceration among Turkish adolescent male offenders: A single-center, cross-sectional study	1
The reform of Irish mental health law: Aligning with human rights obligations?	1
Unreasonable minds and imperfect self-defense	1
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: In response to Ramos et al.	1
Community reentry: Racial/ethnic differences in unmet needs among adults with co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorder	1
Cognition in older offenders in North Rhine-Westphalia: A comparison of prisoners and patients in forensic psychiatry hospitals	1
The effects of forensic mental health reports on decisions about guilt in the Netherlands: An experimental approach	1